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Sunday, November 15, 2009

What Faith Must Do...

There is a new song on the radio that I am just totally mesmerized by. I can't listen to it enough. I totally absorb myself in the lyrics:

Everybody falls sometimes
Gotta find the strength to rise
From the ashes and make a new beginning
Anyone can feel the ache
You think it’s more than you can take
But you are stronger, stronger than you know
Don’t you give up now
The sun will soon be shining
You gotta face the clouds
To find the silver lining

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard
Impossible is not a word
It’s just a reason for someone not to try
Everybody’s scared to death
When they decide to take that step
Out on the water
It’ll be alright
Life is so much more
Than what your eyes are seeing
You will find your way
If you keep believing

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

Overcome the odds
You don't have a chance
(That’s what faith can do)
When the world says you can’t
It’ll tell you that you can!

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do
That's what faith can do!
Even if you fall sometimes
You will have the strength to rise

What Faith Can Do - Kutless

I keep getting this feeling, conviction, sweet assurance that GOD IS ON THE MOVE!!! I have been praying so long for something...someone. So many years have past. My prayer hasn't really changed. I long for his salvation, his freedom, and his true joy that will never be found apart from Christ. I find myself crying to almost every song on the Christian radio. I've become totally vulnerable to what I believe God is doing right now. I believe He is working. Can I see it? No, not if I look with my physical vision. No. But I see something through the eyes of faith...something that my grace eyes have been praying for so long. Perhaps it's that speak those things which are not as if they were. I know now more than ever that what I've been praying for, hoping for, trusting God for is totally something faith can and must do. My part in all of this? Pray, pray, pray...be open to how God may choose to yuse me...but...pray, pray, pray...BELIEVE that this is what FAITH MUST DO.

When you see through faith and not through sight you start seeing things past what your earthly vision allows. I totally "get" "walk by faith not by sight." If I walk by sight, simply what I can see apart from faith, then that can be pretty depressing! And guess what? That is exactly where Satan wants me to stay. Because as long as he can move me toward despair because of what I am "seeing" or not seeing, then he can dishearten me to the extent that I may be still praying but my spirit has really given up. Well, I will not give up! God is on the move. I know. If it weren't so Satan wouldn't have to be working so hard! He's on the move and I am totally amazed by the tiny glimpses I can see of His work...and yet I know that there is so much more that is totally out of my sight. I love that line of the song that says "life is so much more than what your eyes are seeing..." "You WILL find your way, if you KEEP BELIEVING!!!" Wow...

I feel God's presence now. He is working. Silence doesn't signal His departure. Every trace of His work is a puzzle piece. Separately those piece don't make much sense. They seem pretty meaningless. They don't appear to serve much purpose. But once each piece starts to come together...wow...you finally can see the picture. We may never see the whole picture. But He does. So why shouldn't we trust Him with each and every piece that doesn't seem to make much sense to us? He knows how it will all turn out, and it will always be for His glory and for our good. God is on the move...the cares of my heart...this is what FAITH must do!

sent to the stars at 1:57 PM

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